Transcultural Intertwinements in East Asian Art and Culture, 1920s–1950s

Edited by Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch and Annegret Bergmann.

This volume is based on papers presented at two joint workshops by the Faculty of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University, Japan, and the Institute of Art History, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany and traces transcultural intertwinements in East Asian art and culture from the 1920s through the 1950s. Transculturality is not automatically a global phenomenon; it also stands for the presence of different cultural practices, evolving from shared experience and ideas of modernity, as shown in the essays of this book. The authors explore the entanglement of modern phenomena in the art and cultures of Asia and Europe as well as among the Asian countries of China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, within the fields of graphics, design, painting, calligraphy, performing arts, music, photography, and film. Local case studies deal with the influences of modernization within frameworks of the first half of the twentieth century. - 14 contributions, addressing four topic fields: Graphics and Design; Painting and Calligraphy; Performing Arts and Music; Photography and Film. - Contents: Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch, Annegret Bergmann: Introduction: Entanglement of Art and Culture. - Ishida Keiko: The Reception of George Grosz in Japan During the 1920s and 1930s. - Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch: Intertwining Manifestations of Modernity. Images of the "Modern Girl and New Woman" in Korean Caricatures from the 1920s to 1930s. - Antje Papist-Matsuo: Japanese Modern. Bruno Taut as Advisor and Designer in Japan. -- Tomoko Mamine: Transnational Alignments of Modern Art. Discourses on Abstract Art in Japan in the 1930s. - Shao-Lan Hertel: Huang Binhong's (1865-1955) Clerical-Script Painting as a Response to the "Harmonious Uniting of Red-and-Green and Ink". - Mukai Akiko: Coming Closer and Coming Apart: Avant-Garde Calligraphy and Abstract Painting in Postwar Japan. Through the Analysis of Morita Shiryû’s Theory and Practice. -- Annegret Bergmann: Impacts of Modernity on Japanese Theater. Actor Ichikawa Sadanji II. Between Eastern Tradition and Western Innovation. - Fujino Kazuo: Umemoto Rikuhei. Japanese Classical Dance in Transcultural Context. - Chen Yi Ju: The Absorption and the Creation of Contemporary Music in Taiwan under Japanese Rule. A Case Study of Contemporary Composers Who Have Studied in Japan. - Fumiaki Itakura: Spontaneity in Acting in Japanese films of the 1930s. An Analysis of "Our Neighbor Miss Yae" (1934). -- Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch: Transmedia and Transcultural Practice. The World of Jeong Haechang's (1907-1968) Pictorial Photography from the 1930s Onwards. - Ikegami Hiroko : Vision of Freedom and Liberation: Okanoue Toshiko's Photo Collages from the 1950s. - An Age Full of Dreams: An Oral History Interview with Okanoue Toshiko. 273 Seiten mit 172 Abb., broschiert (Studies of East Asian Art History - Studien zur Ostasiatischen Kunstgeschichte; Band 5/VDG Weimar - Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften 2018) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear